JIM REESE
is an Assistant Professor of English; Director of the Great Plains Writers' Tour at
Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota; and Editor-in-Chief of
PADDLEFISH. Reese's poetry and prose
have been widely published, most recently in New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Prairie
Schooner, Paterson Literary Review, South Dakota Review, New Delta Review, Caduceus, Connecticut Review,
and elsewhere. His latest collection of poetry is Ghost on Third (New York Quarterly Books, 2010).
He is also the author of These Trespasses
(Backwaters Press, 2005, 2006), which includes Pushcart Prize nominated poems.
Reese is the 2008 and 2009 National Endowment for the Artís Writer-in-Residence at
the Yankton Federal Prison Camp.